21:007:029 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath
made man upright;
but
they have sought out many inventions.
21:008:001 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth
the interpretation of
a
thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine,
and the
boldness
of his face shall be changed.
21:008:002 I counsel thee to keep the king’s
commandment, and that in
regard
of the oath of God.
21:008:003 Be not hasty to go out of his sight:
stand not in an evil
thing;
for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
21:008:004 Where the word of a king is, there is power:
and who may say
unto
him, What doest thou?
21:008:005 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel
no evil thing: and a
wise
man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
21:008:006 Because to every purpose there is time
and judgment, therefore
the
misery of man is great upon him.
21:008:007 For he knoweth not that which shall be:
for who can tell him
when
it shall be?
21:008:008 There is no man that hath power over the
spirit to retain the
spirit;
neither hath he power in the day of death: and
there
is
no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness
deliver
those
that are given to it.
21:008:009 All this have I seen, and applied my heart
unto every work
that
is done under the sun: there is a time wherein
one man
ruleth
over another to his own hurt.
21:008:010 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had
come and gone from the
place
of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where
they
had so done: this is also vanity.
21:008:011 Because sentence against an evil work is
not executed
speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set
in
them to do evil.
21:008:012 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times,
and his days be
prolonged,
yet surely I know that it shall be well with them
that
fear God, which fear before him:
21:008:013 But it shall not be well with the wicked,
neither shall he
prolong
his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth
not
before God.
21:008:014 There is a vanity which is done upon the
earth; that there be
just
men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of
the
wicked;
again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth
according
to the work of the righteous: I said that this
also
is
vanity.
21:008:015 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath
no better thing
under
the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry:
for
that
shall abide with him of his labour the days of his
life,
which
God giveth him under the sun.


